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Kevin Lowe: If you, by any chance, are thinking to yourself, how in the world is the year almost over?
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Kevin Lowe: 2025, gone in a flash, and you've left to wonder, what did I accomplish this year?
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Kevin Lowe: The goals, the dreams, the ideas I had, what actually happened?
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Kevin Lowe: What came true? And maybe more specifically, all the stuff I've been working
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Kevin Lowe: on this year, what has it been for?
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Kevin Lowe: What do I have to show for it? Am I any further ahead?
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Kevin Lowe: Am I any better off here at the end of the year than I was at the beginning?
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, if you've been wrestling with any of those questions,
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Kevin Lowe: then this is the episode for you.
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Kevin Lowe: Because today I'm sharing my own personal journey, wrestling with these very feelings.
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Kevin Lowe: This idea of what's any of it worth?
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Kevin Lowe: And do I want to continue doing what I'm doing, what I've been doing?
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Kevin Lowe: Or should I maybe make a change? And how do I know if I should make a change
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Kevin Lowe: when I keep praying and I feel like I'm not hearing from God?
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Kevin Lowe: What do I do then? What does it say about me that I don't know?
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Kevin Lowe: What does it say about me that I feel like I'm not hearing from God?
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Kevin Lowe: I'm not having the clarity. All of that is what is inside of today's episode So my friend,
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Kevin Lowe: if you need just a good, old, heartfelt, rambling conversation With a friend
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Kevin Lowe: who gets you, who feels you Well then, my friend,
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Kevin Lowe: you are exactly where you're meant to be This is episode 420 of Grit, Grace, and Inspiration.
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Kevin Lowe: What's up, my friend, and welcome back to Grit, Grace, and Inspiration.
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Kevin Lowe: I am your host, Kevin Lowe. And my friend, if we have not met,
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Kevin Lowe: well, first and foremost, I am excited you are here.
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Kevin Lowe: And you might be wondering, who the heck is Kevin Lowe? And why should I even be listening to him?
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Kevin Lowe: Well, who am I? I am a speaker, an inspirational public speaker.
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Kevin Lowe: I'm also, of course, the creator and host of this very podcast.
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Kevin Lowe: But more than any of that, I'm just a guy on a mission to use what I've been
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Kevin Lowe: through to hopefully be a benefit to somebody else.
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Kevin Lowe: And today, I hope that somebody else is you.
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Kevin Lowe: 22 years ago, I woke up to be left completely blind.
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Kevin Lowe: Literally in the blink of an eye, everything in my world changed.
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Kevin Lowe: And I was faced with the unthinkable, a life without sight.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, I could have chosen to allow this to ruin my life, but instead,
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Kevin Lowe: I chose to let it be a catalyst to send me into a new life, a new world.
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Kevin Lowe: Not one that I chose, but one with a greater purpose, a mission,
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Kevin Lowe: to use what I've been through to be a help to somebody else.
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Kevin Lowe: And that is why I'm here. That is why I speak on stage.
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Kevin Lowe: That is why I have this podcast.
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Kevin Lowe: So now today, though, we're getting real about reflection.
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Kevin Lowe: And there is one thing that is for sure, is that when the year is coming to
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Kevin Lowe: a close, we tend to find ourselves reflecting back on the year that was.
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Kevin Lowe: This just so happens to be the year that was 2025.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, here's where it gets a little bit dicey. because as much as we would love
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Kevin Lowe: to think that we get to look back on life,
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Kevin Lowe: to look back on the year and think of all the amazing things that we accomplished,
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Kevin Lowe: all the goals we achieved, all the dreams that came true, the plans that worked out,
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Kevin Lowe: yep, scratch all of that because more times than not, the time of reflecting
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Kevin Lowe: here at the end of the year, it leaves us depressed, disappointed,
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Kevin Lowe: realizing, what the heck did I do this year?
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Kevin Lowe: And that is where today is going. Because, my friend, I've done this very thing.
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Kevin Lowe: I've done the reflecting.
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Kevin Lowe: And it ain't been pretty, let me just say, that.
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Kevin Lowe: Yes, I am no exception. I am not excluded from this horrible death circle of
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Kevin Lowe: a trap we can go down about reflecting on the year that was.
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Kevin Lowe: A year of a lot of things happening, but were they for any big reason? Did we go anywhere?
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Kevin Lowe: And so the metaphor I want to use to represent how I've been feeling,
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Kevin Lowe: and maybe you can relate, is the treadmill.
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Kevin Lowe: Yes, my friend, the almighty treadmill, the one piece of exercise equipment
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Kevin Lowe: we all know. We've all bought our own back in the day from Walmart.
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Kevin Lowe: We've all jumped on board one at the gym.
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Kevin Lowe: And you know how it goes. You get on the treadmill and you start walking.
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Kevin Lowe: Maybe you crank up the dial. Maybe you get up to a little jog.
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Kevin Lowe: Maybe you're in an all-out sprint. Like you are sprinting for the finish line.
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Kevin Lowe: And you're going. You're working it. You're building up a sweat.
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Kevin Lowe: You got your headphones in. You're listening to your music. You're loving it.
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Kevin Lowe: You know you are burning some calories.
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Kevin Lowe: You're working on them leg muscles. You got it going on.
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Kevin Lowe: And baby, before you know it, you've been on that treadmill for how long? 30 minutes, an hour.
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Kevin Lowe: You have been kicking butt. But you know what's the really sad thing at the end of all that?
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Kevin Lowe: Is all that running? Where did you go?
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Kevin Lowe: You're still in the same place. You're in the exact place you were when you
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Kevin Lowe: stepped on that treadmill.
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, if that doesn't feel like life sometimes, I don't know what else does.
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Kevin Lowe: Because for myself, I feel like life can be a treadmill.
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Kevin Lowe: We are constantly running, sprinting, sometimes walking, sometimes power walking.
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Kevin Lowe: Other times we get up to a jog and we're doing it and we're going through the
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Kevin Lowe: motions. We're doing all the things.
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Kevin Lowe: And yet, what do we have to show for it?
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Kevin Lowe: Yeah, maybe we've got some life experience. We've learned some things along
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Kevin Lowe: the way. But have we gone anywhere?
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Kevin Lowe: Am I anywhere different than I was at the beginning of the year?
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Kevin Lowe: For myself, this is what I've been dealing with. And it's why I'm talking about
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Kevin Lowe: this is because I've had to ask myself the difficult questions of why am I doing what I'm doing?
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Kevin Lowe: What does any of it matter? The dreams that I have, the goals that I set,
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Kevin Lowe: why did I have those goals?
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Kevin Lowe: What makes me think that those dreams I had were going to come true?
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Kevin Lowe: And what does it say about me that the dreams didn't come true?
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Kevin Lowe: Is that that I'm a failure? Is there something wrong with me?
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Kevin Lowe: And that is where I sit. Today, I don't pretend to have all the answers.
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Kevin Lowe: More so, I want today to be an opportunity for me to hopefully connect with you.
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Kevin Lowe: Somebody who maybe is feeling like this as well. Where you feel like you've been on a treadmill.
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Kevin Lowe: For this past year, heck, for the past five years, 10 years,
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Kevin Lowe: where you're putting in the work, you're doing all the things,
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Kevin Lowe: but you feel like you don't have anything to show for it.
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, if you feel like that, trust me when I say I am right there with you.
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Kevin Lowe: I feel like I've been on the treadmill next to you this entire time.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, yes, if we want to be all positive, which I try to be.
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Kevin Lowe: Yeah, we've learned a lot. We've gained a lot.
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Kevin Lowe: But if we want to talk about tangible things, money in the bank,
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Kevin Lowe: experiences had, what do we have to show for it?
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Kevin Lowe: For myself, I don't feel like a whole lot.
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Kevin Lowe: And it's been frustrating. And it's been discouraging.
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Kevin Lowe: And it's been leading me to really think about life, of what exactly do I want?
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Kevin Lowe: Because here's the thing. back to the treadmill,
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Kevin Lowe: a lot of times we're on the treadmill and we're going through life and we just
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Kevin Lowe: keep going because it's what we've been doing and it's normal. It's routine.
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Kevin Lowe: We just fall in line. We get up each morning and we don't think about the actions we take.
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Kevin Lowe: We just do it. We're on autopilot. But what if we decide to stop the treadmill,
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Kevin Lowe: to turn off this normal routine?
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Kevin Lowe: Because we start to wonder, why am I doing what I'm doing?
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Kevin Lowe: What is any of it worth? Does any of it really matter to anyone?
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Kevin Lowe: These are the questions I've been battling with everything that I've been pursuing.
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Kevin Lowe: And I'm talking about even this very podcast.
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Kevin Lowe: I've been doing this podcast for over five years.
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Kevin Lowe: Five and a half years I've been going strong.
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Kevin Lowe: And I've started to wonder, but is it for anything?
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Kevin Lowe: Does it really matter to anyone? Yeah.
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Kevin Lowe: I mean, I see the numbers on my dashboard. When I log in to view the analytics
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Kevin Lowe: and I see that I have people tuning in and listening from all over the world,
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Kevin Lowe: one of which is you, which, hey, thank you for being here.
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Kevin Lowe: But I have to wonder, does it really matter?
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Kevin Lowe: Is anything that I'm saying actually making a difference in anyone's life? I don't know.
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Kevin Lowe: It's kind of hard when I'm just here talking into a microphone,
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Kevin Lowe: putting something out onto the World Wide Web, onto your Apple podcast.
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Kevin Lowe: That's as far as I get to go. I don't get to talk to you unless you're somebody
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Kevin Lowe: who actually reaches out and emails me, who sends me a message.
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Kevin Lowe: I have no idea who I'm talking to. I have no idea if any of this matters.
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Kevin Lowe: And so I've been wrestling with the idea of, do I continue doing what I've been doing?
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Kevin Lowe: Do I continue running on the same treadmill in the hopes that it's going to turn into something?
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Kevin Lowe: It's going to mean something to me or to somebody else? Or do I think about changing tactics?
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Kevin Lowe: Do I think about jumping from the treadmill over to the elliptical machine?
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Kevin Lowe: Do I skip cardio altogether and just go straight in to start pumping some weights? I don't know.
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Kevin Lowe: It's the reflections at the end of the year, the stuff we all encounter.
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Kevin Lowe: And this brings me to the next little point that I want to make here is that
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Kevin Lowe: sometimes as a Christian, I hope that I could hear from God.
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Kevin Lowe: Because the fact is true is that at the point I'm at in my life right now,
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Kevin Lowe: even though there's a lot of things that I want and I dream about,
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Kevin Lowe: to be honest, I'm tired of chasing after my own dreams and goals.
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Kevin Lowe: Because for me personally, it feels like everything that I keep chasing after doesn't work out.
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Kevin Lowe: I don't end up achieving what I wanted to achieve.
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Kevin Lowe: I feel like more doors are closed than open.
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Kevin Lowe: I feel like opportunities are lacking.
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Kevin Lowe: And sometimes I just wonder, God, what do you want for me? What do you want me to do?
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Kevin Lowe: And to be honest, that's what matters to me at this point in my life,
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Kevin Lowe: is I just want to do what God wants me to do.
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Kevin Lowe: Because at the end of the day, my friend, at this point in my life,
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Kevin Lowe: having gone through what I have, the only thing that matters to me right now.
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Kevin Lowe: Is that when my life is over and I go to heaven, I just want God to be proud of me.
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Kevin Lowe: That I did exactly what he hoped I would do.
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Kevin Lowe: That's what I want for my life. But that brings me to the issue that I've been battling with.
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Kevin Lowe: Is when we want to know what God has in store for us, but we can't hear him.
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Kevin Lowe: People say with the best of intentions for us to just get quiet and to listen
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Kevin Lowe: to God. and to follow His lead.
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Kevin Lowe: But my friend, that can be such frustrating advice because I don't know about
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Kevin Lowe: you, but God does not have an on-off switch.
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Kevin Lowe: Yes, they say that you have to take time to get quiet, to just sit and listen to God.
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Kevin Lowe: But I don't know if you've ever felt like you've heard God's voice before,
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Kevin Lowe: But for me, it's never, ever come when I've been silent, when I've been really
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Kevin Lowe: wanting to hear from God.
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Kevin Lowe: No, it's never happened like that.
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Kevin Lowe: Instead, it happens in just the normal day-to-day chaos of life.
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Kevin Lowe: Matter of fact, there was one day in particular, one situation.
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Kevin Lowe: It was just a normal day, middle of the afternoon.
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Kevin Lowe: I'm standing in my kitchen, cutting up a grapefruit.
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Kevin Lowe: And all of a sudden, God spoke to me like I'd never had God speak to me before.
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Kevin Lowe: The Holy Spirit just completely took over my body.
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Kevin Lowe: I was saying something out loud that I swore I would never say.
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Kevin Lowe: This particular situation was forgiving someone who had done harm to my family,
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Kevin Lowe: who I swore I would never forgive.
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Kevin Lowe: And yet right there in my kitchen, cutting up a grapefruit, I forgave them.
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Kevin Lowe: It wasn't me even speaking.
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Kevin Lowe: It was God speaking through me, the Holy Spirit.
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Kevin Lowe: I've been witness to God performing what I would call miracles.
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Kevin Lowe: I've been witness to literally my sister being in a hospital,
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Kevin Lowe: us thinking that she was about to die to literally watching her before our very
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Kevin Lowe: eyes sit up in bed and be ready to go home.
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Kevin Lowe: I know God is real. And I know that God performs amazing things in our lives.
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Kevin Lowe: And I know that God can speak to us.
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Kevin Lowe: But it can be so frustrating sometimes when people can act like it's so easy.
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Kevin Lowe: And it can make you feel like there's something wrong with you,
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Kevin Lowe: that there's something wrong with your faith, with your relationship with your
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Kevin Lowe: creator, that you're not hearing God.
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Kevin Lowe: They say to just listen to God and do what God says you should do.
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Kevin Lowe: But my friend, it's not that easy.
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Kevin Lowe: And what I want to do right now is to be sure that you understand that if you've
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Kevin Lowe: been in the same situation as me, where you want to hear from God, but you're not.
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Kevin Lowe: You're not hearing from Him. You don't know what you're supposed to do.
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Kevin Lowe: Every decision you've made in your life feels like it's always been the wrong decision.
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Kevin Lowe: Even the ones that you think.
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Kevin Lowe: God is leading you in that direction, and yet they still don't work out.
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, I just want you to know that I understand exactly how you feel.
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Kevin Lowe: When you feel like you're just being led astray, and you pray,
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Kevin Lowe: and you ask God to give you direction,
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Kevin Lowe: to speak truth to you, to let you understand what to do, and yet it just feels like God is silent.
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, I understand how that feels.
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Kevin Lowe: And I don't really have an answer for you or me.
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Kevin Lowe: Other than the fact that what I've learned in my own life, in my own faith journey,
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Kevin Lowe: is that God does speak to us.
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Kevin Lowe: But rarely ever does it come across like people make it seem to be.
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Kevin Lowe: We're in the perfect situation while you're quietly just sitting in your living room.
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Kevin Lowe: Sipping your morning cup of coffee, meditating, reading the Bible.
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Kevin Lowe: No, instead, it just comes out of nowhere in the middle of an afternoon with
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Kevin Lowe: the TV on, you standing in your kitchen cutting up a grapefruit.
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Kevin Lowe: Or driving down the highway in the middle of your normal everyday life.
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Kevin Lowe: Maybe it's a song that comes on, a song that you've heard a hundred times before,
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Kevin Lowe: but all of a sudden this time you hear the song differently.
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Kevin Lowe: The lyrics that are spoken are as if they're being sung by you.
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Kevin Lowe: It's like God came through in that song, in those lyrics.
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Kevin Lowe: God came through in the sunrise. We're all of a sudden, the same sunrise you've
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Kevin Lowe: seen every day of your life. It just hits differently.
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Kevin Lowe: You have a whole new outlook on life. It's like you're seeing your future for the first time.
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Kevin Lowe: Those are the little moments when God speaks to us. And we need to not discount them, that they're God.
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Kevin Lowe: They are God, 110%. So my friend,
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Kevin Lowe: I guess what I want for you to get out of today's episode is the understanding
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Kevin Lowe: that if you're feeling like this year has been a big fat failure,
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Kevin Lowe: if you're feeling like you've been stuck on a treadmill for the past five years,
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Kevin Lowe: if you're feeling like you just wish that God heard you,
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Kevin Lowe: you're not alone in any of those feelings.
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Kevin Lowe: And all I can say is what I've been telling myself, is that right now,
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Kevin Lowe: you just need to have hope,
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Kevin Lowe: for a better tomorrow. Don't lose hope. Hope in a better year. We're almost into 2026.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, what does a turn of a calendar really mean?
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Kevin Lowe: I don't know, but we put a lot of weight on it. So we're just going to go with it.
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Kevin Lowe: It's a new year. It's a new day, a new opportunity.
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Kevin Lowe: And so to you and to me, let's not give up on life.
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Kevin Lowe: Let's not give up on the chance to make those dreams come true.
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Kevin Lowe: Let's just keep fighting the fight, doing the thing, and let's see where we get in the end.
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, if at any point you would love to connect with me,
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Kevin Lowe: maybe something I said today resonated,
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Kevin Lowe: something you'd love to talk with me about, please check out today's show notes
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Kevin Lowe: where you can find links and information on how you can contact me.
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Kevin Lowe: You can also just go to my website, which is gritgraceinspiration.com.
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Kevin Lowe: Pretty easy. Just the name of the podcast.
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Kevin Lowe: Gritgraceinspiration.com. That is a easy way for you to be able to get in touch with me.
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Kevin Lowe: And lastly, but not least, My friend, make 2025 a year to remember by just focusing
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Kevin Lowe: on this month. We got one month left to go.
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Kevin Lowe: Spend it with the people you love. Do some fun things.
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Kevin Lowe: And remember to keep tuning in to this podcast as episodes are going to continue
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Kevin Lowe: to drop all the way up through the end of the year and beyond.
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Kevin Lowe: My friend, I'm your host, Kevin Lowe, and this, of course, is Grit, Grace and Inspiration.